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March 21, 2024
March 21st is International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination
In Canada, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is an opportunity to reflect on the fact that while progress has been made, Indigenous Peoples and racialized communities continue to face racism and discrimination every day.
March 20, 2024
Island Health Staff Keep Calm and Carry on Through 8-hr. Planned Downtime
The night of February 23 to 24 might have felt longer than usual for some staff on duty at Island Health, as a planned Cerner downtime (Code Grey) of eight hours had medical and clinical staff moving back to paper documents while all the Cerner systems moved to remote servers (known as Remote Hosting Option).
March 20, 2024
New local-level structures complete Island Health's clinical governance model
A new design for local clinical governance committees that brings together acute, community, medical and patient perspectives is now part of Island Health's modernized clinical governance structure.
March 19, 2024
Medical Staff Compensation Update: Invoicing Reminder
With the introduction of the latest Physician Master Agreement, the Ministry of Health (MoH) now requires providers to specify whether they are on or off site, and which site they are working at.
March 19, 2024
Call out for Medical Staff Co-Facilitators - Violence Prevention Training
Island Health is looking for up to six medical staff members from high risk areas, with violence prevention and de-escalation expertise, to enhance the current provincial Violence Prevention Training curriculum offering.
March 14, 2024
Young Adult Mental Health Unit Opens at Royal Jubilee Hospital
The RJH Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) team is excited to announce the opening of its new Young Adult Mental Health Unit.
March 12, 2024
March Long Term Care Program Newsletter
Highlights in this edition: Review restraint use in LTC, Clinical documentation continues to go live and LTC has Wiki Cerner page resources and Powercoaches to help your site!! Nutrition: review undernutrition CAP in RAI coding and how nutrition promotes wound healing, and more.
March 12, 2024
MHSU Update February 2024
The January/February Edition is out now of the Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) newsletter. Find out more about the new treatment centre in Parksville, the new youth program and much more.
March 8, 2024
Happy International Women's Day: Inspire Inclusion
March 8 is International Women's Day! On this globally recognized day, we collectively celebrate the achievements of women and remind ourselves of the work still to be done across the world, in the continuous push for equality - socially, culturally, economically and politically.
March 7, 2024
Medical Health Officers' Newsletter: No. 357
Global increase in measles cases: Measles cases are increasing globally, with recent reports of outbreaks in Europe and India and limited spread in USA and Quebec. Travel-acquired measles cases in Island Health are possible, which could lead to local outbreaks.